Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-01
THE NATION.

Ioiith lIoil tnt AntIOhte
Mrs. Cleveland has been elected mem.
her OF the board OF trustees OF W ellis female
college.
Surgeon-General Hamilton says no fur
Their spread of ye low fever need be feared
at Key West.
Three persons were instantly killed by a
falling oak tree near Wilmington, Del, n
few days ago.
Mrs. Jacobus, the nurse of President
Cleveland, died recently at Caldwell, n.
j., aged % years.
Secretary falrchild has issued an order
directing the payment of July interest
checks and coupons.
The postofllce at Willoughby Ohio, was
burglarzei the other night and about
5000 taken from the safe.
Gen. James Speed. well-known politi-
clan of Kentucky, died at his home near
Louisville on the 25th ult
Samuel Meyers, superintendent of the
Miami, 0nd.. county asylum is under ar
rest on n charge of cruelty.
Three men who were trying to save
goods from burning building in Jackson
Vile Florida, were burned TO death the
other morning.
The annual reunion of the Army of the
Potomac, was held in Saratoga, n. y,
June %. The next reunion will be held in
Gettysburg July l, 9, 3 ISIS.
Hugh NJ Brooks, alias H. Lennox Max
well, who murdered Charles Arthur Prel-
lar at the Southern hotel in St Louis in
April, 1885, will be hung August II.
r. T. NJ. Simons, the ex-manager of the
Hotel Delmonte at Montery, Col, who
was charged last spring with having set
fire 10 that hosiery ha' been acquitted.
The annual reunion of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel workers was
held near Pittsburg few days ago, and
over 10000 people took part in the exer
cises
The l0gth anniversary OF Washington's
evacuation of Valley Forge was appropri
ately commemorate on the 18th inst
Fully $1,000 people participated in the fes-
tvities
The latest report from the Apache
Indians is that eleven OF them have been
driven back 10 the reservation by Lieut..
johnson and troops. This leaves very
few at large.
Commissioner Sparks OF the general
land Office has taken the preliminary steps
to cancel fifty-fve desert land entries IN
Wyoming territory, agsregating in area
about - 600 acres.
4 gentlemanly clothes washer from
China became crazy at JOLIET. H., because
his sunday school teacher would not be
stow her heart on him, and he was sent 10
Chicago for treatment
Stanislaus Loichat stabbed DR.. +. o.
Portman of Canton, O., with intent to
kill. Loichat was released upon condition
that his friends send him TO France where
he would stay and never return.
c. X. Carter and three other prisoners
killed the deputy sheriff and escaped from
the jail at Mount Vernon, Mo, thirty
miles west of Springfield a reward Of 500
has been Offered for Carriers arrest
The Illinois legislature has appropriated
$4,000 TO erect monument TO the memo
ry of Gen. John A. Logan. The Monu
ment association has issued a call 20 all
g. \. r. posts 10 aid In the enterprise.
The jury in the case of McGarigle and
Mcdonald, indicted for conspiracy TO de
fraud Cook county, Illinois. brought in
verdict of guilty, and fixed the punish
ment at three years in the penitentiary.
A very di,astrou, fire occurred at the
Union stock yards in Chicago the other
day. \ large quantity of live and mes,
pork was burned and considerable proper
" destroyed, entai.iny loss of 81, 10000
Whitley Fassler q hilley of Springfield
Ohio, the most extensive paper manufac.
turers in the country. have placed their
business in the hands Of a receiver. The
business will continue without Interrupt
ton.
In Maine a few weeks ago a woman gave
birth to three children, and the curious
fact is noted that the ages of the children
vary by just one day, one being born
Tuesday, the second Wednesday and the
third Thursday.
James +. Nowling OF Boston, who killed
young Goldman, a milk peddler and then
cut the body into small pieces and scat
tered them along the highway, has been
convicted of murder in the first degree
His object was robbery.
The remains of ten children have been
exhumed at Philadelphia. 1t is alleged
they were poisoned by eating buns colored
with "confectioners' yellow" and
chemical analyst. is TO be made. The
bakers who sold the buns plead innocence.
At recent examination at the Naval
academy a number OF candidates failed TO
pass and were recommended for dismissal.
Secretary Whitney Is over-run with mem
bers of congress and others interested
seeking the return OF the delinquent candi
dates.
a tramp named John Gallagher has
brought suit against the Chicago Buring
ton q Quincy railroad com pany for 6, 900
damages for failing TO sustain charges
brought against him of attempting train
wrecking for which lie laid in lail six
months.
William A. BucSlew, assistant postmas-
ter at Coshocton, o., is under arrest on a
charge OF being short in his accounts with
the government. He was taken TO Column
bus for trial before the United States com
missioner The amount charged against
aim is g, POO.
The interstate commerce commission
has decided that railroads must judge for